THE TEAM

The challenge of diversity

Ferrovial has demonstrated its status as a diverse, global company, with an average workforce of more than 106,596 employees that work in 49 countries.

The combination of talent and professionalism shown by the employees of Grupo Ferrovial constitutes one of the company's fundamental pillars of success.

Ferrovial's vision for its Human Resources Department is a team capable of providing innovative people management solutions that are attuned to the new needs of the company and its professionals and generate value for the organization.

Of the total workforce, 60% work outside Spain, primarily in the United Kingdom (23%), United States (12%), Poland (5%) and Switzerland (4%).

By business areas: 70% of employees work in Services; 13% in Construction; 12.6% in the Airports division; 4.2% in Toll roads and Car parks; and the remaining 0.3% in the Headquarters.

Recognising its global reach, Ferrovial has assumed the responsibility of managing its diversity and maintaining a work environment which is free from every type of discrimination be it for reasons of race, gender or religion as well as any form of conduct that might imply personal harassment.

	2008	2007	2006
Average workforce	106,596	104,934	88,902
Expatriate employees	426	363	210
% Permanent workforce	82	79	84

More than 81% of the total workforce are operators and technicians, 9% are graduates and undergraduates, 7.4% are admin staff and 1.8% are managers, who, at the end of 2008, had a average age of 44 and nine years of experience in the company.

Managing talent

Talent management is a strategic priority and seeks to identify the best professionals within and outside of the organization. Internally this is carried out by the implementation of a performance evaluation system capable of measuring the contribution of each member organization.

During 2008, the assessment was extended to 68.2% of employees. Externally, this has been achieved through screening programs that only allow the most qualified professionals in the market to join to company.